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# The Department for Work and Pensions: Secure Card Payment Services Procurement

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/the-department-for-work-and-pensions-secure-card-payment-services-procurement-ocds-h6vhtk-0426cd). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Department for Work & Pensions: "The Department for Work and Pensions: Secure Card Payment Services Procurement". Published status: active. Published Value: £12,513,595. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 13 Mar 2024, 13:00 GMT. Published submission portal: dwp.bravosolution.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Department for Work & Pensions](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/department-for-work-pensions-gov-d10)
- **Published Value:** £12,513,595 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 13 March 2024 at 13:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Restricted procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support, Telecommunications services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/the-department-for-work-and-pensions-secure-card-payment-services-procurement-ocds-h6vhtk-0426cd#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0426cd`

## Before you bid
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- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/the-department-for-work-and-pensions-secure-card-payment-services-procurement-ocds-h6vhtk-0426cd#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [dwp.bravosolution.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdwp.bravosolution.co.uk%2F)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/the-department-for-work-and-pensions-secure-card-payment-services-procurement-ocds-h6vhtk-0426cd#participate

## Description
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for administering welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy in the UK, serving around 20 million claimants. The new SCPS Contract is required to ensure continuing capability for the DWP to receive customer payments in a PCI DSS compliant manner and provide all Outbound Telephone calls for the DWP. 
The current DWP provision allows business groups to receive customer payments in a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant manner, including an Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR) capability to facilitate payments. The DWP service and SCPS contract currently supports approximately 9,000 agents. The current SCPS contract also includes the routing of outbound calls via the PCI DSS compliant service provider.
The DWP takes approximately 750,000 card payments per annum, totalling approximately £130M per annum. This is collected by two areas of the DWP and Northern Ireland’s Department for Communities: Child Maintenance Group (CMG); and Debt Recovery.
The DWP is undertaking this procurement process to secure a new SCPS Contract that can meet the current and future needs of the service to ensure value for money and service continuity. This contract will replace the current SCPS contract that enables Debt and Child Maintenance business groups to take customer payments using a Dual Tone Masking Frequency (DTMF) facility.
Under the new SCPS Contract, the DWP has identified the following requirements:
1. Secure Card Payment Services (SCPS): The ability to take payments via inbound and outbound calls in secure fashion for 11,000 agents (SIP Licences);
2. Outbound Call Services - Due to the current architecture, all Outbound calls will traverse the SCPS. Regardless of whether a payment is taken or not all Outbound calls will use the Solution provided;
3. Self-Serve IVR Service - This will be used for Child Maintenance Group (CMG) and is to be outside of DWP. This is used to recover payments from non-payees via payroll. It sits outside of DWP Infrastructure within the supplier’s environment;
4. Nailed up PSTN (Optional) – The DWP may require additional outbound call capacity to enable the DWP to deploy a Nailed Up PSTN Solution to deliver voice connectivity to 3rd party outsourcer for up to 6 months after contract start;
5. Additional SIP Licences (Optional) – The DWP may require an additional 2000 agents (with associated SIP Licences) to enable DWP to deploy a Nailed Up PSTN Solution following commencement of the provision of the services.
6. Additional OB channels are required as a tactical Solution to support significant increase in volume of long duration outbound calls being generated by the Genesys platform.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 64200000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Estimated Value:** £12,513,595
- **Description:** Through this procurement, the DWP is seeking to appoint a supplier who meets the following requirements:  
1. Secure Card Payment Services (SCPS):	The ability to take payments via inbound and outbound calls in secure fashion for 11,000 agents (with a...

- **Options published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F002862-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-01-29T10:04:18.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T13:50:38.574Z
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